Not the same, lentils for the legume family, lentil genus of a cultivated species, perennial or annual twining vine plants. Alias moth eyebrow beans, eyebrow beans, along the hedge beans, magpie beans. Eat young pods or mature beans. Each 100 grams of young pods containing 89 grams of water to 90 grams, protein 2.8 grams to 3 grams, 5 grams of carbohydrates to 6 grams, but also contains toxic proteins, lectins, and saponins that can cause hemolysis. Before cooking, it should be soaked in cold water (or slightly scalded with boiling water) and then fried. Mature bean grains are cooked or made into bean paste filling. The seed coat is white, and the seeds, seed coat and flowers can be used as medicine, which has the effect of eliminating summer heat and removing dampness, invigorating the spleen and detoxifying the toxin.

Lentils are taproots, stem trailing, divided into two categories of long and short trailing, the former trailing 3 meters to 4 meters, cultivation is common; the latter trailing 0.3 meters to 0.6 meters, branching, rarely cultivated. Tricotyledonous leaves, stalks long, leaflets ovoid, leaf surface glabrous. Racemes, 10 cm to 30 cm long, axillary, flowers purple or white. Pods flat, dorsal and ventral lines developed, fleshy and plump when fresh, purple-red or light green; leathery and yellow-brown when old. Seeds flat ellipsoid, black, brown or white. The umbilicus is white, large and obvious. Thousand grain weight 300 grams to 600 grams, germination years 2 years to 4 years.

The lentil is a short sunshine plant, like warm, more heat-resistant, the plant can withstand high temperatures of about 35 ℃, withered in frost. The root system is developed, the adaptability of the soil is wide, more drought-resistant and moisture-resistant, adaptable, can be used beside the house, hedge side or hillside open space sporadic planting, let grow. Lentils in the final frost hole sowing or seedling hole planting, germination temperature 22 ℃ ~ 23 ℃, each hole stay seedlings 2 to 3. Spring and summer temperatures of 20 ℃ ~ 30 ℃, branches and leaves grow vigorously. Autumn sunshine shortened when the flower bud differentiation; temperature difference increases, favorable pod growth. The pods are fully expanded, the dorsal and ventral cavities are not very fibrous before picking, and have been harvested until the frost. Early cultivation, can be before the final frost seedlings, after the final frost according to the hole 40 cm × 40 cm planting. Seed plants should be selected early pods and more robust plants, stay in the middle of the stem and vine pods for seed, to be harvested when the pods are fully ripe. The plants are susceptible to aphid damage during growth.

Seasonal beans for legumes, also known as beans, beans. Every 100g of beans contains 112.97kJ (27Kcal) of caloric energy, 0.8g of dietary fiber, 1.5g of protein, 4.7g of sugar, 0.2g of fat, and also contains some minerals and vitamins. Vegetable beans contain low caloric energy, per 100g of beans containing caloric energy than peas 221.75kJ (53Kcal), beans or fried food, can also be boiled and dried to eat